The Copts
'Modern Sons of the Pharaohs'
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21198274 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacques Van Der Vliet (Leiden University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 279-290 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Church History and Religious Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1871-241X • E-ISSN: 1871-2428 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/187124109x407934 |
| OpenAlex | W1964567460 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This essay briefly reviews the Coptic identity constructions that can be subsumed as 'Pharaonism', and tries to assess them with reference to both ancient sources and modern developments. Broadly speaking, Pharaonism is a way of claiming a deeply rooted national identity that transcends the religious opposition between Egypt's Muslim majority and its indigenous Christian minority, the Copts. As a political ideology it was most successful in the period of the nationwide Egyptian struggle for independence in the early twentieth century, but its impact in particular among Coptic intellectuals is still great. In this essay, it is argued that Pharaonism is shaped in a remarkable degree by western Orientalism, and that its main historical tenets, such as the Copts' indebtedness to pre-Christian, Pharaonic culture or their anti-Greek nationalism, can no longer be maintained
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Ideology · Indigenous · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2018 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |